Scale-up PHE activities in the Philippines

INDICATOR January to June 2010 Cumulative Comments Results Years 1 and 2 Integrated indicators Number of population, health, environment organizations addressing non- traditional audiences 1 TCMP, an organization formerly focusing only on environment and health HIV AIDS, now addressing FP needs and audiences

3.2 Scale-up PHE activities in the Philippines

PPEPFPI As noted earlier, the 24-month PPE Project supported by David and Lucile Packard Foundation ended April 30, 2010. However, in the last four months of project implementation, PFPI continued to provide implementation and technical assistance to local government units LGU to enable sustainability of the gains of the community-based family planningreproductive health systems and services established in the project sites. 4 Results of program monitoring indicate that the project outcomes and targets were achieved. For this reporting period, the PPE project’s trained government health personnel identified and facilitated the training of an additional 32 CBDs resulting in a total of 387 trained CBDs in the project sites. The trained government health personnel also continued to monitor activities of these CBDs, which included provision of FPRH information and referral services to couples and distribution and social marketing of non-clinical methods of FP pills, condoms. The peer educators that were trained under the program continued to function as change agents for responsible parenthood, safer sex practice and environmental conservation. The peer educators, Ministry of Health MOH Reproductive Health Unit RHU personnel and the CBDs also helped expand access to FP services in the project sites, which resulted in 2,839 new users of modern family planning methods in these sites over the first three months of 2010. Program monitoring data indicate an increasing trend in family planning acceptance and use of family planning methods in the project sites since the introduction of these CBFP activities. This indicates there is a high level of latent demand for family planning services in biodiversity hotspot areas and also points to the appropriateness of CBFP systems to bridge gaps in service delivery and access to FPRH information and methods. PFPI’s policy advocacy communication inputs under the PPE project generated substantial political commitment and support for integrated approaches to poverty alleviation. For this reporting period, there was one Executive Order passed by one local government unit LGU partner in support of the PPE project activities. 4 Danajon Bank Central Visayas, the Verde Island Passage between Luzon and Mindoro and the Mt. Capotoan- Mt. Cabalantian Watershed Complex Western Samar. 34 The value of cash and in-kind resources from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, PFPI, and municipal and barangay LGUs totaled an estimated US 111,812 from January-June 30, 2010. Conservation International Philippines Conservation International Philippines CIP finalized an eight-page advocacy brief entitled “Wellbeing of People and their Environment in the Verde Island Passage” based on existing projects in the Verde Island Passage VIP, and highlighting the benefits of the PHE approach and possible interventions in existing VIP marine sites such as along the Batangas coast. CIP also sponsored three seminars on human well-being and environment in the VIP, focusing on the links between human health and marine conservation there. More than 120 participants attended, including local government leaders from the municipalities of Batangas, Mindoro Occidental, and Mindoro Oriental; and officers and key staff from the Department of Health and the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, the Department of Education and academic institutions. In the VIP, CIP is working with different stakeholders than is PFPI. As a result, these seminars reached new audiences for the BALANCED Project. Two thousand copies of the advocacy brief were disseminated to government officials and multi-sectoral partners in the VIP area. To ensure the brief also reached the grassroots level, it was translated into the local language and distributed to community-level leaders and lower level staff from the same government departments and organizations. CIP also promoted PHE both the PHE Network and the BALANCED Project in a Research Forum on February 23, 2010. Participants from health, environment and development NGOs participated in the forum to discuss PHE Network activities and plans and also recognize the links between marine conservation and climate change. As a participant in global climate change negotiations and meetings, CIP staff gave an update on international and national climate change initiatives to encourage PHE network members to explore opportunities to engage in climate change adaptation and mitigation. In addition, the PHE advocacy brief was used to provide input into socio-economic data collection for the CIP Vulnerability Assessment being conducted by CIP’s marine unit. This integration of PHE data into biogeochemical studies was a positive result of the CIP collaboration in the VIP. At the conclusion of these activities, CIP’s formal participation in the BALANCED Project ended on March 31, 2010. However, CIP will continue to promote PHE in the Philippines and to contribute to the PHE Network activities. For example, it is helping organize the Fourth National PHE Conference and CIP staff is conducting two major conference sessions on “Mainstreaming PHE in Climate Change Adaptation across Ecosystems and Sectors”. Results from Activity 3.2 • US 111,812 in match funding from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, PFPI, and municipal and barangay LGUs—as this funding was reported as match, it is not reported under indicator SO1 35 • 32 CBDs trained Indicator 1.1 • 2,839 new family planning acceptors Field indicator • Distance to access FP commodities reduced from an average of 1 - 5 kilometers to less than one kilometer Field indicator • 1 local ordinancepolicy enacted that integrates PHE Field indicator Status of PMP Indicators for Activity 3.2 INDICATOR REPORTING PERIOD YTD Y 2 TARGET 1.1 Number of individuals trained by BALANCED in PHE know-how and SOTA State of the Art practices using 21st century learning tools 32 32 No target 3.2 Number PHE programs scaled-up PRH 3.4 0 1 Danjanon Bank 1 3.3 Number of BALANCED field site activities that produce results that can feed into KM activities development of tools and success stories 0 1BMS feeding into research report 1 Philippines PMP Field Data Summary INDICATOR January to June 2010 Cumulative Results Years 1 and 2 Comments General Number of individuals trained 32 29 females and 3 males 568 Family Planning and Reproductive Health Number of new users 2,839 8,150 Number of counseling visits for family planningreproductive health FPRH as a result of USG assistance Counseling visits were not collected by PFPI at the project level; partner health units collect the numbers 36 INDICATOR January to June 2010 Cumulative Results Years 1 and 2 Comments Number of USG- assisted service delivery points providing FP counseling or services 32 411 Average household distancetime to access family planning commodities Less then 1 km Health centers were main source of FP commodities in the villages estimated at more than 1 km to 5 km and were not open everyday; with CBDs, access to FP commodities is daily, can be anytime in some areas and in the neighborhood less than 1 km away Integrated indicators Number of population, health, environment organizations addressing non- traditional audiences 49 In YR 1 report, PFPI failed to count 38 organizations addressing non- traditional audiences Dr. Torell provided PFPI with ME training and was able to gather additional data from Year 1 activities that was not recorded, but is included in cumulative total Number of enabling local ordinancespolicies enacted that integrate PHE 1 2 The LGU of Baco is the first municipality in the Province of Oriental Mindoro to issue an Executive Order for the organization of the Integrated Family Planning, Reproductive Health and Coastal Resource Management Council

3.3 Scale-up PHE activities in Madagascar